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Corporation or body politic
a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's
Ecclesiastical Law
Ecclesiastical Law, the law administered in the ecclesiastical courts; it is derived from the Civil and Canon Law. Consult Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.' The body of law derived
Defence struck off or defence struck out
the sphere of law. Indeed it finds a place on Order XI, Rule 21 of the Code of Civil Procedure: Where any party fails to comply with any order to answer interrogatories, or for discovery of inspection
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Delictum
Delictum, challenge propter. See CHALLENGE. A delict, tort, wrong, injury or offence. Actions ex facie are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from actions on contract.
Deposit
be returned when the bailor shall require it. The appellation and the definition are both derived from the civil law. Depositum est quod custodiendum alicui datum est. It is, in the civil law, divisible into two kinds:
Displaced person
March 1947, abandoned or has been made to abandon his land in the said territories on account of civil disturbances or the fear of such distur-bances, or the partition of the country', Munshi Ram v. Financial Commissioner,
Frauds, Statute of
said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been
Entertain
Entertain, means 'file or received by the High Court' and it has no reference to the actual hearing of the application for leave to appeal; otherwise the result would be that in many cases applications for...
Escape
or imprisoned, and gets away before he is delivered by due course of law. Escapes are either in civil or criminal cases. (1) Civil. The abolition of imprisonment for debt has rendered this all but obsolete, and
Escheat
of the bond between lord and tenant from extinction of the blood of the latter by natural or civil means, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 413. Is the reverting of property (in England),
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